Typical Course of Study


Multiple Objective

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Fine Arts

Social Studies

  • Types of community life

  • History and development of the local state

  • Relation of the state to its region, nation, and the world

  • World cultures

  • Reasons for our laws

  • Regions of the world

  • Continents

  • Time zones

  • Earth's resources

  • Climatic regions of the world

  • Map skills: longitude, latitude, scales

  • Using a globe

Science
  • Structure of plants

  • Environment of the local region

  • Biological organization

  • Classification systems

  • The insect world


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  • The reptilian world

  • Plants and animals of the past

  • Structure of plants

  • Seeds

  • Ecosystems

  • Balance of nature

  • Human body

  • Weather's influences

  • Weather instruments

  • Climate

  • Cause of seasons

  • Earth and its history

  • Oceans and the hydrosphere

  • Air and water pollution

  • Magnets and electricity

  • Light and color

  • Solar system and the universe

  • Living in space

  • Scientific method and scientific inquiry

Language Arts

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  • Silent and oral reading

  • Choral reading

  • Listening skills

  • Telephone skills

  • Making and accepting simple social introductions

  • Summarizing simple information

  • Listening to literature

  • Critical reading

  • Short stories, chapter books, poetry, plays

  • Spelling

  • Increasing dictionary skills

  • Cursive handwriting

  • Simple outlining

  • Writing letters and informal notes

  • Written and oral book reports

  • Creative writing

  • Developing skills in locating information

  • Increasing indexing skills

  • Developing encyclopedia skills

  • Utilizing parts of a newspaper

Health and Safety

  • Personal and mental hygiene

  • Dental health

  • The body and its functions

  • Skeletal and muscular systems

  • Care and proper use of the body

  • Principles of digestion

  • Basic food groups


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  • Good nutrition habits

  • Diseases

  • Safety

  • Substance abuse

Mathematics

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  • Reading and writing numbers

  • Roman numerals to C

  • Prime numbers less than 100

  • Prime factoring

  • Numeration systems

  • Subsets

  • Decimal and fraction equivalents

  • Addition and subtraction facts to 7 places

  • Multiplication and division facts to 144

  • 1-, 2-, and 3-digit multiplication problems

  • 2- and 3-digit dividend, 1-digit divisor problems

  • Meaning of mixed numbers

  • Finding simple averages

  • Geometric concepts

  • Customary and metric measurement

  • Time to the second

  • Problem-solving methods

  • Charts and graphs